Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly isle that had become his adopted country. The hilarious reserve that resulted, Records from a Small Island, was taken up to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the publication that best represents Britain. Right now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new trip around Britain to find out what has transformed.

Pursuing (but about THE STREET to Small Dribbling: More Records From a little Isle not too closely) a route he dubs the Bryson Range, from Bognor Regis to Cape Wrath, by way of places that many people never reach in any way, Bryson units out to rediscover the wondrously beautiful, magnificently eccentric, endearingly exclusive nation that he thought he knew but doesn’t altogether recognize any longer. Yet, despite Britain’s periodic failings and more or less eternal bewilderments, Costs Bryson continues to be pleased to call our rainy isle home. And not just because of the cream teas, a commendable history, and a supplementary day time off at Xmas.

Once again, along with his matchless homing instinct for the funniest and quirkiest, his unerring eye for the idiotic, the endearing, the ridiculous and the scandalous, Bryson provides us an acute and perceptive understanding into all that’s best and worst type of about Britain today.

Download includes accompanying PDF map from the Bryson Line

Music written and performed by Richard Digance, inspired by The Road to Little Dribbling